Production news stories featured on The Stage website from November 25 to December 2. MUSICALS ' Idina Menzel has announced a new UK and Ireland tour next summer. Menzel, who is currently st…
Public figures including Andrew Lloyd Webber, the former culture secretary Chris Smith and actor and politician Michael Cashman, have joined the debate on arts education in schools. Lloyd We…
Idina Menzel is set to tour the UK and Ireland next year. Menzel, who is currently appearing in If/Then on Broadway, will begin her tour at the Bord Gais Theatre in Dublin on June 20….
Eric Potts not only writes all of First Family Entertainment's pantomimes across the UK, but directs and stars in one too What is your role within the company? I write all of 10 scripts each…
Wales Millennium Centre has claimed to have sold more than £100 million worth of tickets since its opening a decade ago. The centre, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this week, has r…
Full casting has been announced for the forthcoming production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, which tours next year. Gerard McCarthy and Vanessa Babirye will play Tony and Leah …
Bea Roberts and Paul Murphy have won the inaugural Theatre 503 playwriting award for their plays And Then Come the Nightjars and Valhalla. The award, financially supported by the Richard Car…
Islngton’s King’s Head Theatre has announced its programme for the first half of 2015, which includes the stage premiere of Richard O’Brien’s Shock Treatment, the seq…
The Print Room has announced its second season at the Coronet in Notting Hill, which includes the world premiere of a new Robert Holman play. A Breakfast of Eels will be directed by Robert H…
Home, Manchester’s new centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film has announced that it will open on May 21, ahead of a weekend of programming that includes a new work by Sim…
Theatre company Les Enfants Terribles will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with an immersive production staged in the Vaults …
Production stories published on The Stage website between November 18 and 25. MUSICALS ' Lucy May Barker and James O'Connell have joined the cast of the touring production of Oklahoma!, whic…
The Bush Theatre has announced its spring/summer programme for 2015, which includes a new play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and the London transfer of The Angry Brigade. Artistic director Madani Yo…
Tom Conti will reprise his role in Twelve Angry Men when the show tours the UK in 2015. Conti starred in the production when it ran at London’s Garrick Theatre earlier this year, and w…
Nicholas Hytner has won the Critics' Circle's annual award for services to the arts in Britain. Other nominees included composer Neville Marriner, actor Emma Thompson, choreographer Matthew …
Theatre company Tara Arts has begun work on a year-long project that will see its south London base transformed into a national hub for cross-cultural theatre. The new £2.5 million buildi…
The Yard, London: With this new version of Sophocles' lesser-known tragedy Philoctetes, the Yard continues to establish itself as a home for bold and imaginative work. Jeff James, who w…
Liam Mower made history in 2006 when he became the youngest person to win the Olivier award for best actor alongside James Lomas and George Maguire, for originating the role of Billy Elliot …
Jos Vantyler is in rehearsals for Flying Into Daylight, a new play by Ron Hutchinson, which opens at Live Theatre in Newcastle next week. Set in Argentina, the show features live tango music…
A bill to ban the use of wild animals in circuses has been blocked for a fifth time in the House of Commons. The Wild Animals in Circuses bill was put forward as a private…
Dominic Dromgoole has announced his final summer season as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, which includes a production of King John in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the M…
Charlene James' Cuttin' It has won the Alfred Fagon award for best new play of the year. The award was presented in a ceremony at the National's Dorfman Theatre, which also saw playwright Mu…
Opera Holland Park could become independent from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with the help of a £5 million grant. The opera company has been operated by the council since …
The Theatres Trust is opposing plans to demolish the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham, Surrey. The grade II-listed venue, which closed in 1998, comes under plans for a wider regeneration of the a…
Watford Palace Theatre has announced its 2015 spring season, which includes the world premiere of a new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Jefferson's Garden, written by Wertenbaker and set in1…